Guild Wars 2

Hiya,

Is there any guides available to counter all the classes. Explaining what each classes strong points are and how to counter them.

Im having a lot of trouble visualizing when someone is gonna burst me be it condi or direct.

Would love some guides on this (preferably video guides). Is anything like this available?

The best way to counter some class is to actually play it and get to know it.

Yeah if you play all classes just do what comes natural, probably the laziest combo you can imagine.

Rangers for example. They will probably come right at you and knock you back, followed by a burst. All you have to do is go “oh no I’ve fallen and I cant get up, halp!”, wait a second, pop reflect and watch them take half their own hp.

I’m personally a slacker when it comes to 1v1 matchups, so I can’t help you with pin-point advice.

If you have a specific class you are really having problems with, there are 2 things you can do.

First, find a good reference point/guide/player of that profession and have them teach you the ropes, then you play that class, with no slacking, to the best of your ability, considering what to do in what situation etc. and I would say 200-300 games in you’ll start to have a hazy grasp of the flow of some of its basic combinations and where your class stands in the matchups.

Second, find a good player of that class you have issues with, and bribe him with oatmeal cookies. Duel him thousands of times until you’ve got your solutions worked out and you’re starting to win 50% of the time.

I don’t disagree that if you find some super key tip against a specific build you can just win off of that because you play sharp anyway, but I don’t think everyone can do that.

You can also ask for advice on a specific matchup, and likely someone with experience will pipe in; if you’re asking for a compendium of all classes vs all classes, it would be a giant write up, and since PoF is on the horizon, all that work would probably go to waste because of the changing meta.

Edit: welp, you got it down below, the MVP.

How to counter necro:
- if he plays with signet of plague and he has quiet a lot condis … activate your block/go out of line of sight/ dodge his Staff-mark-animation
- if necro leaves shroud and is ~half hp watch till his Hand raises (Heal) and interrupt him
- dodge his Reaper shroud 5
- moa him in shroud … if he’s half hp is pretty much dead.
- get distance when he’s in shroud

How to counter/kill support ele:
- interrupt Lightning/water overload
- corrupt boons when he’s on earth overload

How to counter thief:
- luck and timing
- … stowing weapons when he’s ón d/p and some distance away … use terrain: walls/pillars to get out line of sight and pistol 4

How to counter mesmer:
- survive … cause mesmer sustain is insane.
- watch his head (signet-activation) and dodge moa
- dodge his shield/ illusions(>=2 running at you)

How to counter Dragonhunter:
- play it yourself … too much block-rotations i cant really remember ^^
- dont run/get knocked through his traps … dodge through them to activate them run away and wait till they end … then re-engage
- stow weapons when burn-guard activate his blocks until you have unblockable attacks

How to counter Rev:
- stow your weapon when he activates glint heal (dmg→Heal)
- interrupt his shield 5 if you can
- dodge/block/interrupt his sword 3
- condi rev … watch your condi stacks

How to counter warrior:
- Dodge power warrior- burst
-interrupt/dodge headbut
- constant condition pressure
- interrupt his shield block (e.g. Necro warhorn 4)

Engi and Druid is quiet difficult cause they have lot of cc and invis.
- Conditions
- Dodge/run away when engi has RAGE.
- CC Druids

hope this helps a little…. most thing are pretty obvious